Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley, painted by Singleton Copley, c. 1776-80. SOURCE: WIKIPEDIA The constellation Pictor whose configuration is recognized as an easel must have been in perfect ...

Boston in the 1740s: a bustling port at the edge of the British empire. A boy comes of age in a small wooden house along the Long Wharf, which juts into… ...

Americans have long thought of the Boston-born painter John Singleton Copley as a founding father, one who happened to wield a paintbrush instead of a quill. Among the first great artists born in ...

John Adams once proclaimed John Singleton Copley to be “the greatest Master, that ever was in America.” As a teenager, Copley was already satisfying Bostonians’ desire for realistic portraits. By the ...

John Singleton Copley (1738–1815), born in Boston, Massachusetts, was an American painter known for his detailed and realistic portraits of colonial Americans.

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The Museum is currently exhibiting a rarely-seen pastel portrait by John Singleton Copley, arguably the greatest portrait painter of colonial America. For the Bowdoin community, this opportunity is ...

The younger John Singleton Copley was born in Boston, Province of Massachusetts Bay, in 1772, likely on Beacon Hill in a house that was on or near 2 the current site of 41-42 Beacon Street.

But nobody told that to Benjamin West and John Singleton Copley. Though the American-born artists (Pennsylvania and Massachusetts respectively) ...

Clothing style from the 1700s is on display in a portrait by artist John Singleton Copley that indicates its subject likely was a lawyer. “Portrait of John Gardiner,” which hangs at The ...

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